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Cannes 2008 - Market/France - Round-up of sales at Films Distribution
2008-05-27 10:37:50Despite the generally sluggish and complicated atmosphere reported by the majority of sellers who attended this year's Cannes Festival Film Market, business was booming for French international sales agent Films Distribution. Philippe Garrel's Frontier of Dawn - which was selected in official competition (see news) - was bought for Italy by Archibald (new distributor and offshoot of...
Cannes 2008 - Market/Scandinavia - Trust Nordisk makes Mammoth sales
2008-05-27 10:37:50Trust Nordisk registered the most interest during Cannes in Lukas Moodysson's first English-language film, Mammoth, based on 19-minute reel of footage shown twice to buyers at private screenings. The film starring Gael Garcia Bernal and Michelle Williams was sold Benelux (A Film), Filmcoopi (Switzerland), Budapest Film (Hungary) and Austria (Filmladen). The Memfis Film production will be...
Sales - Spain - Focus Features acquire worldwide rights to Agora
2008-05-28 15:21:43US giant Focus Features International announced at the recent Cannes Film Market that they have acquired the worldwide rights (except for Spain and the US) to Agora, the new work by Alejandro Amenábar. The director's second English-language feature after The Others (2001) will thus have an excellent springboard in terms of its exhibition. The acquisition also demonstrates the film...
Sales - Germany - The Match Factory racks post-Cannes sales
2008-06-04 12:00:12Cologne-based The Match Factory announced a string of deals closed on its popular Cannes entries Waltz with Bashir, Tulpan, Cloud 9, O'Horten, Liverpool and Flame & Citron. Ari Folman's Waltz with Bashir, one of the Cannes competition favourites, achieved fantastic sales by the end of the market, selling to some 40 territories. In addition to the previously announced deals (see news), the...
Sales - Spain - Latido closes deals at Madrid de Cine
2008-06-12 05:00:06The three-day market Madrid de Cine-Spanish Film Screenings, which closed yesterday, was a profitable event for Latido Films, headed by Massimo Saidel, who closed several deals in its line-up. Jose Luis Lopez Linares' “gastronomic thriller” documentary The Chicken, the Fish and the King Crab sold to Hungary (Budapest Film) and Germany/Austria (Arsenal), with deals pending...
Festivals - Spain - Rosales, Honoré and Levring compete in San Sebastian
2008-07-01 05:00:05The San Sebastian Film Festival has revealed seven of the titles that will vie for the Golden Shell at its 56th edition, which will take place in the famous Basque Country coastal city from September 18-22. Jaime Rosales, Christophe Honoré and Kristian Levring are among the European directors presenting their latest works, which will be shown alongside films by Daniel Burman (Argentina),...
Distribution - UK - P&A awards disbursed; DVD sales up
2008-07-10 05:00:04Several acclaimed art-house films have received distribution support from the UK Film Council's Prints and Advertising Fund, enabling a wider release. Icon Film Distribution received £104,567 for James Marsh's Man on Wire, which won the Standard Life Audience Award at this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival, increasing the release from 24 to 45 sites. Pathé Distribution...
Sales - Iceland - Queen Raquela sold to here! in the US
2008-09-01 05:00:07Olaf de Fleur Johannesson documentary-fiction The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela winner of a Teddy Award-Best Film at the last Berlin International Film Festival, was just acquired for US distribution by here! Regent Releasing will distribute it in selected US cities this fall, starting with New York and Los Angeles on September 26. The deal was brokered by Mark Reinhart, West Coast...
Sales - France - Five European gems join Films Distribution's line-up
2008-09-10 05:00:08The forthcoming films by France's Denis Dercourt, Italy's Michele Placido, Spain's Daniel Monzón, Belgium's Micha Wald and Germany's Margarethe von Trotta have just been added to the already well-stocked line-up of French international sales company Films Distribution (see news). This confirms the major role played by the firm in the circulation of European auteur film. Currently in...
Sales - Scandinavia - Nordic animation gets sales push
2008-09-11 05:00:05Denmark's Sunshine Barry & the Disco Worms and Finland's Moomin and Midsummer Madness are getting a sales push by their respective sales representatives Sola Media and NonStop Sales. The German-based sales outfit Sola Media has announced a couple of new sales on Thomas Borch Nielsen's 3D family film Sunshine Barry, which just screened at Toronto's Sprocket Family Zone. Territories that...
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